Some people want wealth because it means power over others. Some people want wealth because it means they can minimize interactions with others.

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And some want wealth to do fun things, help people and not have financial worries.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No. Not me…I’m mainly in the second camp. I just don’t want to deal with… gestures to everything …all this.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t want wealth. I want things and to do activities that require money. If I could skip the money and just have the things and activities, I would be happy.

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And there’s the problem; equating wealth with money. The word ‘wealth’ originally meant ‘well-being, prosperity, and happiness’, and it still should. The word ‘welfare’ comes from the same root, but that’s been perverted as well.

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• bouh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most people want wealth because it means they won’t need to think at how to survive the next month.

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• hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am poor and chose the latter. Own a small cheap cottage on the edge of a tiny rural village at the arse end of Australia (Tasmania) live simply and have a like minded parter. I quit work at 35 and am now 59, don’t get any goverment pensions etc have a small investment portfolio of shares i purchased back in the 1990s from working and live off the dividends.

  I don’t want to be rich, as to even try to do so I’d have to compromise all of my morals to get there. I’m rich enough. I quit paid work as it wasnt for me.

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  • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Goals

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  • themaninblack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck yeah. When you come into Melbourne hit me up and we’ll have a drink

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• CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have no interest in power. I want wealth so that I can stop stressing out over money.

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• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want wealth so I can quit my day job and focus on creating art

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  • medem@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    May I suggest Michael Lucas’ ‘Cashflow for Creators’. While not exactly a must-read, personally it helped me a lot to actually map, plan and ultimately take the decision to tell the corporate world to get stuffed.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What kind of art?

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    • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m a performance artist

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want wealth so i can quit this fucking joke of a job and have my own business.

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• Monster96@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want wealth for ease of mind. No more worries about food, shelter, and health for me and my family.

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  • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m still waiting for that ease of mind. I could live 2 years off my savings yet most of my anxiety remains financial.

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• RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everyone give your money to me so I become rich so I can achieve my goals.

  1. Live in bunker in woods away from people

  2. Make LeVar Burton president

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• MeatPilot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want wealth to become Batman.

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• Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The second fits me, I’d love to be able to secure a life for myself and my family — separate from the bullshit in the world (if possible).

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• Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These are both forms of power.

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• Sorrow3527@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want wealth so I don’t have an existential crisis every time I need to get my brakes done. Or my teeth prosthetics needs repair

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• three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want wealth so I can build a better world for everyone else to live in, like building metro lines and libraries all over my city, affordable, mixed-use housing, and funding clean energy projects. We are not the same

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• idriss@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I kinda don’t fit in both. I need reasonable steady income/wealth (as soon as it covers food, a car, an apartment, gym, some clothes, … for me and some relatives) so I can do other stuff.

  This will be centered around volunteering in different ways (open source, research, …) without fearing going homeless the moment I disagree with someone.

  Given my low cost geo location, I am closer to this than ever.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have no problem going to work every day if I know I can pay my bills and have some fun during my off time.

  The last 12 months has been the first time in 20 years that I felt like I wasn’t able to accomplish that, and it’s getting worse.

  And I’m content spending most of my weekends at home doing nothing, so I don’t feel like that’s too much to ask.

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• ter_maxima@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some people want wealth to expand their stamp collection.

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• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And some people (named Peter Thiel) want both!

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